Date: 09/29/2018

Number: 550

Between 1:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. four spotters and taggers tagged 50 monarchs and tallied 550 monarchs in flight at the Pilot Ridge Overlook at Milepost 301 on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Caldwell Co., N.C. near Grandfather Mountain.

The monarchs were coming through pretty steadily all afternoon, with a couple of short lulls. They did seem to come in waves a few times, as evidenced by the photo of four in hand. I was netting them faster than I could hand them off to a tagger!

We also estimate that we saw between 4,000 - 5,000 Broad-winged Hawks migrating.
It was a great day!

Linville, NC

Latitude: 36.1 Longitude: -81.8

Observed by: Nancy
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